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P. MQLEHNIG.

CORSET FASTENING. I No. 569,213. Patented Oct. 13, 1896.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRIEDRICH MAX LEHNIG, OF BARMEN, GERMANY.

CORSET-FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 569,213, dated October13, 1896. Application filed December 12, 1894. Serial No. 531,583. (Nomodel.) Patented in England December 8,1894, No. 23,922.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRIEDRICH MAX LEHNIG, a subject of the GermanEmperor, residing at Barmen, in the German Empire, have invented new anduseful Improvements in Busks for Corsets, Leggings, and other Garments,(for which I have obtained Letters Patent in Great Britain, No. 23,922,dated December S, 1894,) of which the following is a specification.

This invention consists in busks for corsets, leggings, and othergarments, such busks being provided or formed with means for fastenin gthem together, whereby the advantages are obtained that the busks, whenfastened together, cannot accidentally become undone, but maynevertheless at the will of the wearer be unfastened bya simple and easymanipulation without the use of movable parts applied to the fasteners,and as easily be closed or fastened. For this purpose I fit or form thebusks with two kinds of fasteners, one or more of each, at suitabledistances apart on the opposite edges of the busks. These fasteners aremade of sheet-brass or other suitable elastic sheet material in numberaccording to requirement. The one kind of fastener has its two oppositeparts constructed to interlock in such manner that they may be engagedby springing one against the other and are disengaged by an angularorlateral move ment, while a vertical or longitudinal movement isimpossible. The other kind of fastener has its two opposite partsconstructed to interlock in such manner that they are made to engage byspringing one against the other hookwise and so that they are disengagedby pulling one out of the other lengthwise, the busks thus becomingdetached.

Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings is a front view of a pair ofcorset-busks fastened together according to my invention. Fig. 2 is aplan view of the bush and top fastener, and Fig. 3 a horizontal sectionthrough the same. Fig. 4 is a horizontal section through the busk andone of the other fasteners,which latter in this example are all alike.Fig. 5 is a horizontal section of a modification of Fig. A. Fig. 6 is afront view of the upper part of a pair of busks fitted with the twokinds of fasteners, the uppermost one being slightly different from thecorresponding one in Fig.

1, while the lower one is different from the corresponding lower ones inFig. 1. Fig. 7 is a horizontal section through the upper fastener ofFig. 6, and Fig. 8 a horizontal section through the lower fastener ofvFig. 6.

Referring now, first, to Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, the part A of the topfastener is bent in the hook shape shown'in Fig. 3, the hook having acurled-up end A. It has besides an upper and a lower bent-over flap'partA (See Fig. 2.) These flaps take over and inclose the hook withcurled-up end B of the fitting B onthe other busk, the hook parts A andB engaging with each other, as shown in Fig. 3. It will be understoodthat the parts A and B may be sprung against each other, so as toengage, and that either when placed angularly to each other or not; butthe flaps A prevent any movement up and down when the parts are engaged.The lower sets of fasteners G D have no such end flaps and interlock inthe manner shown in Fig. 4. The hooked parts 0 and D cannot bedisengaged by pulling apart sidewise, but they are easily disengaged bypulling apart endwise. Fig. 5 shows a modification of Fig. 4, the endparts 0' and D being of a decided barb-hook form, the part D slippingpast the part 0 in the act of closing.

It will thus be understood that if the two busks (or any other garmentsto which the fasteners are applied) are to be undone the fastening A B,generally the uppermost one, is first disengaged by moving the fittingsA and B angularly to each other and then pulling them apart. Then theother fastening or fastenings O D are undone simultaneously by slidingthem endwise out of each other. To fasten the busks together, thefasteners A B are first connected by lateral or angular motion and thenthe fastener, or fasteners O D are pushed together, there beingsufficient spring and space in them to admit of this, or the fittings Oand D may first be slid end- Wise into each other and the fastener A Bthen locked by pushing the fittings A and B against each other.

Referring next to Figs. 6, 7, and 8, it will be noticed that the shapeof the end part B as shown in Fig. 7 is slightly difierent from the endpart B shown in Fig. 3, also that the 7, and 8.

end parts 0' and D as shown in Fig. 8 are similar to the parts A and Bshown in Fig. 3; but the fitting Ahas in this case an upper and -lowerflap like A Fig. 2, and for the same purpose-viz., to preventdisplacement end Wise of the fittings A and B. The form of the parts Dand O is such that these fittings may be pulled apart by applying alittle force, and they may also, and that with ease, be detached bysliding endwise in the manner described with reference to Fig. 1 afterthat the top fittings AB have been detached from each other by angularmovement and a slight pull.

Fig. 9 shows a section which may be substituted for any of the sectionsFigs. 3, 4, 5,

If this form is applied to the fittings O D, these may be detached fromeach other by forcibly pulling them apart, but it is more convenient todetach them from each other by endwise movement, as described, afterthat the top fastening A B has first been undone. The busks may each beformed with the fittings out of one piece of sheet material, but Iprefer, for the sake of cheapness of manufacture, to make the fittingsseparately and fix them on the busks.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination with two meeting edges adapted to move reciprocally indifferent planes, and a fastener composed of two complementary partshaving their shanks turned in the same direction and provided with barbsOD and constructed to be brought one over the other in looking and tounlock by reciprocal motion in the direction of the meeting edges, ofafastener composed of two complementary interlocking parts constructedto unlock by reciprocal motion at an angle to said meeting edges, one ofsaid parts provided with an upturned flap A on each side holding theparts against motion in a direction parallel with such meeting edges,for the purpose set forth.

FRIEDRICH MAX LEIINIG.

IVitnesses:

V. JENSEN, T. F. BARNES.

